Marshfield, Wis. Nov. 1. - (Special) - Four of
Marshfield’s best known businessmen had their lives snuffed out in an automobile
accident Sunday afternoon near Unity when the car in which they were taking an
initial ride was struck by a Soo line passenger train.

Three of the four
were instantly killed, the fourth, owner and driver of the car, retained
consciousness for thirty minutes after the accident and dying of internal
injuries.

The dead:

Peter Daul, 47 years old, driver of the car,
proprietor Eagle hotel.

Philip Adler, 63 years old, capitalist, owner of
the Adler opera house, several business blocks and prominent in banks, instantly
killed.

The party in Mr.
Daul’s car were on their way to Dorchester, on the Ashland division of the Soo.
Mr. Daul was driving. One mile south of Unity the road crossed the track through
a cut about ten feet deep. Brush conceals the view of the tracks both ways. Here
they were struck by Soo line passenger No. 11, northbound and said to have been
twenty minutes behind schedule time.

Parts of the car were hurled from
fifty to 300 feet, while the four men struck the ground close together, within
fifteen or twenty feet. Cattle guards at the crossing were torn off by the
impact.

Schroeder, Alder and Githens probably died instantly. Nearly
every bone in their bodies were broken. Daul died in the Unity depot a few
minutes after being taken there.